Beta starts

Woo hoo! The alpha (development) stage of V2 is over. The beta (testing) phase begins. Once I have eliminated some of the nastier bugs, I will make the beta publicly available. This will probably happen in a week or two.

Posted by admin on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, at 6:31 pm, and filed under Version 2.

What I meant to say was that when we print the field of view using either the field of view script or from the field of view tab have the objects that are in the field of view labeled on the print out. I now realize that Astroplanner does this when we print the field of view tab.

@Gary
I for one am getting fairly desperate to accept money :^)
For V2 it will still be the same as before with a shareware version with limited catalogues and some restrictions, and a registered version with nothing restricted. For V3, I might have some special features to squeeze more money out of the enthusiasts.

Hi Paul, I am a registered user of v1.6.1. IceInSpace forum had a thread on AstroPlanner, and mentioned that you had a v2 beta on the way.

I have read to this point and would be very keen to get my hands on a copy of the beta. I am also very keen to throw money at you

Your Beta page notes that beta users should be be relatively experienced astro users (I am not, though my interest goes back many years) or experienced software testers (I have written a reasonable amount of code in REALbasic, and read (and post occasionally to) the RB NUG as tonybarry).

If you have the opportunity to flick a copy of the beta this way, I’d be very pleased.

@Tony
I have resent your registration info, which includes your V2 licence number info. Download the latest beta from the beta page, toss it in your Applications folder (Mac) or run the installer (Windows), and you are away.

Hi Paul.
I was using V1.6 on my Net-book last night, and wondered if I would still be able to run version 2 on it. (screen res, ROM etc) There is a proliferation of these small computers in astronomy circles down here in Oz. They are very handy to cart outside and to drive scopes. So just thought I’d drop you a line in case they have fallen under the radar.

@Greg
A lot of folk seem to be buying these el-cheapo netbook things. Unfortunately (and I was investigating this yesterday) it looks like I can’t reduce the vertical height restriction for open plan documents without serious re-design and re-engineering.
I’m wondering if there isn’t a third-party solution to create a larger virtual desktop. I’ll post on the Yahoo group.

@Nick
Yes, V2 should work on Netbooks with a minimum screen size of 1024×600. Of course, the experience will be less than optimal, but all windows and dialogs are now adjusted where necessary to fit on such a screen.